Two Venezuelan planes flew to the United States on Monday and returned home with deported Venezuelans, signaling a possible improvement in relations between longtime diplomatic adversaries and a victory for President Donald Trump in his efforts to get more countries to take their people back.

Venezuelans — have been flown back to Venezuela. Court records show about one-third had no criminal record, contradicting administration claims.

The White House says Venezuelans who have been deported from the U.S. are being flown back to their country, after a two-year pause the program. "Repatriation flights to Venezuela have resumed, with Ambassador @RichardGrenell overseeing the first two flights,

Within about three weeks of being in office, the Trump administration has begun repatriation flights of Venezuelans who were illegally in the U.S. The administration also

Two planes sent by Venezuela returned home Monday with nearly 200 Venezuelans who were in the U.S. illegally as part of President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan. The 190 migrants returned to Ven

Around 350,000 Venezuelas in the U.S. will lose their Temporary Protected Status, but what is it? And why are they losing it?

Venezuelan migrants, who were hoping to reach the U.S. and decided to return to their country due to U.S. President Donald Trump's new immigration policies, walk near a checkpoint to get to the port and board a boat to take them to the Colombian border, in Gardi Sugdub, Panama, February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Enea Lebrun/File Photo

For nearly 350,000 Venezuelans benefiting from Temporary Protected Status, a federal program the Trump administration has officially ended, the clock is running out. The federal government’s decision to terminate deportation protections under the 2023 TPS designation has set a high-stakes deadline: April 2.

Grenell convinced Venezuela’s strong man, Nicolas Maduro, to release six American hostages. He also persuaded Maduro to embrace the return of illegal Venezuelan migrants from the U.S. The first return flights started last week, and Grenell was there to see the migrants off.

But that, the idea that sanctions are the direct cause of Venezuela’s migrant crisis is just not accurate. In 2017, the first sanctions by the U.S. toward the Venezuelan governm

Here is a report by the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research Center, which looks at the thousands of deaths that occurred in Venezuela during this period due to US sanctions: Report Finds US Sanctions on Venezuela Are Responsible for Tens of Thousands of Deaths